Don't Bring Me Down · Electric Light Orchestra

115 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-72 and 74-115 -- 99.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
DON'T BRING ME DOWN · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 2 sections: 114 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-115.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Bring Me Down?

116 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Don't Bring Me Down hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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